{"id":28,"date":"2004-12-21T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2022-09-29T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T22:52:18","slug":"o-tannenbaum-o-tannenbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/o-tannenbaum-o-tannenbaum.html","title":{"rendered":"O Tannenbaum! O Tannenbaum!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11544\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11544\" src=\"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/heartfield_tannenbaum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/heartfield_tannenbaum.jpg 509w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/heartfield_tannenbaum-300x408.jpg 300w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/heartfield_tannenbaum-400x545.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;O Tannenbaum.&#8221; John Heartfield. Photomontage. 1934<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The yuletide carol, <em>O Tannenbaum<\/em> (Oh Christmas tree) was written in 1820 and based on a German folk melody. German anti-Fascist artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.art-for-a-change.com\/Express\/ex12.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Heartfield<\/a> created the above photomontage in 1934 to deride the Nazis who had seized control of his country the year before. The artist titled his work: <em>O Christmas tree in German soil, how bent are thy branches!<\/em> With Christmas only a few days away, it\u2019s good to remember Heartfield\u2019s searing commentary on how unrestrained militarism makes a mockery of the Christian message of peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The yuletide carol, O Tannenbaum (Oh Christmas tree) was written in 1820 and based on a German folk melody. German anti-Fascist artist John Heartfield created the above photomontage in 1934 to deride the Nazis who had seized control of his country the year before. The artist titled his work: O Christmas tree in German soil, how bent are thy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photomontage","category-xmas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}